Roland Merchant

Roland Merchant is a Senior Vice President of Eastdil Secured, LLC, a wholly owned Real Estate Investment Bank of Wells Fargo. Mr. Merchant has over 10 years of experience in finance, sales and real estate investment banking. He is primarily responsible for the marketing and valuation of secondary commercial mortgage whole loans, B-Notes and mezzanine debt. He has been involved in over $8 billion of loan sale and valuation transactions for clients including TIAA-CREF, Bank of American/Merrill Lynch, Prudential Mortgage Capital, MetLife Insurance and the FDIC. Prior to joining Eastdil Secured, Mr. Merchant was an investment banking associate in the Capital Markets Group at Cushman and Wakefield and the Leveraged Finance Group at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Merchant holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. from Dillard University.